[MPlayer-users] re: [Mplayer-dev-eng] xmms-plugin

[Greg Maculo]

On 29 Aug 2002 14:00:03 -0500
Jeremy Brenner <jeremy at theedge.net> wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>  
> 
> >>Hi,
> 
> >> has anyone tried to make an xmms-plugin of mplayer? (don't flame me!)
> >no. nobody was so mad yet :)
> >> since it shouldn't be that difficult, i might try this myself, if
> >>noone has
> >> done it yet. basically it should suffice to adapt main.c to be a
> >>plugin and
> >> get its input from xmms, making a libao that outputs to xmms and
> >>removing
> >> the non-x targets from libvo.
> >it is not so simple, but feel you free to try it. we can't help, sorry.
> 
> >xmms plugins are multithreaded, event-controlled code, while mplayer
> >isn't.
> >changing mplayer is between very hard and impossible.
> >(and will result to same performance and stability loss as other
> >players has)
> >
> >A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team
> >
> >--
> >mailto:arpi at thot.banki.hu
> >http://esp-team.scene.hu
> 
> Ok. this is a VERY old message, but something i'd like to see.  My idea
> is slightly different and I'd like to know if its a possibility,  I
> would like to attempt this myself.  First off I think making mplayer the
> plugin is way to drastic.  I would like to see an MPlayer
> configuration/control/playlist plugin for xmms.  Possibly piping the
> audio back through mplayer but not necesary.  I would like playlist,
> play, pause, ff, rewind, volume functions pass through a plugin(possibly
> via lirc (is that the correct name?) to control an already stable
> possibly UNMODIFIED mplayer. It could fire mplayer up when necessary and
> shut it down when needed.  Passing info back to xmms may be more of a
> chore, I'm not for sure what type , if any support for feedback about
> video position and whatnot mplayer has.  If my goals are too lofty then
> I'll back down, but I would like to look into it. Let me know what
> anybody thinks about this.
> 
> jeremy
> 
> 
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i've thought about that feature for a while... easiest thing that i can think of is to make a wrapper program to run mplayer when needed and have that wrapper program redirect xmms's control requests to mplayer as needed...
maybe get the play time and song/video info from stdout
i'm not too sure about how to send the audio data to xmms for the visualization stuff, maybe make an audio out driver to redirect to xmms? -- but that leads to another problem for some sound cards --- xmms butchers the audio for me on my laptop since it's locked at 48kHz -- mplayer plays beautifully...

a wrapper wouldnt be too tough ... any thoughts?